Full Course Calendar (Fall 2021)

The open-ended structure of this class leaves you a lot of room for exploration, but it also might make it difficult to know where you’re meant to be spending your time each week. The purpose of this calendar is twofold: one, to give you a single canonical listing of everything you need to do in the class, and two, to give you an idea where we expect your time to be spent each week. If you find yourself unsure where to spend your time, check here!

Numbers in parentheses are our estimates for how much time you should spend on each task. Note that these can be hard to estimate as some tasks (e.g. “Investigate the literature and gather sources”) overlap significantly with others (“Complete Assignment 1”, where half of assignment 1 is to write about what you gathered).

Week TasksDeliverablesDeadline
1
  • Start-of-Course Survey
08/29/2021
209/05/2021
309/12/2021
409/19/2021
509/26/2021
610/03/2021
710/10/2021
810/17/2021
9
  • Complete the Mid-Course Survey (<0.5)
  • Continue working on your project as scheduled (9)
  • Earn participation credit (extra peer reviews, forum posts, project participation) (1)
  • Complete weekly status check (<0.5)
  • Mid-Course Survey
10/24/2021
1010/31/2021
1111/07/2021
12
11/14/2021
1311/21/2021
1411/28/2021
15
12/05/2021
1612/12/2021
17
  • Complete four peer reviews on the final project presentations (2.5)
  • Earn participation credit (extra peer reviews, forum posts) (4)
  • Complete the end-of-course survey (0.5)
  • Complete the CIOS survey (0.5)
  • Browse and discuss other students’ projects (2.5)
12/19/2021